TY  - JOUR
AU  - Fernández-Villaverde,Jesús
AU  - Greenwood,Jeremy
AU  - Guner,Nezih
TI  - From Shame to Game in One Hundred Years: An Economic Model of the Rise in Premarital Sex and its De-Stigmatization
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 15677
PY  - 2010
Y2  - January 2010
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w15677
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w15677.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde
University of Pennsylvania
160 McNeil Building
3718 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Tel: 267/307-1068
E-Mail: jesusfv@econ.upenn.edu

Jeremy Greenwood
Department of Economics
University of Pennsylvania
3718 Locust Walk
McNeil Building, Rm 160
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6297
Tel: 215/898-1505
Fax: 215/746-2947
E-Mail: do-not-use@jeremygreenwood.net

Nezih Guner
MOVE
Facultat d’Economia
Edifici B – Campus de Bellaterra
08193 Bellaterra
Cerdanyola del Vallès
Spain
E-Mail: nezih.guner@movebarcelona.eu
AB  - Societies socialize children about sex. This is done in the presence of peer-group effects, which may encourage undesirable behavior. Parents want the best for their children. Still, they weigh the marginal gains from socializing their children against its costs. Churches and states may stigmatize sex, both because of a concern about the welfare of their flocks and the need to control the cost of charity associated with out-of-wedlock births. Modern contraceptives have profoundly affected the calculus for instilling sexual mores. As contraception has improved there is less need for parents, churches and states to inculcate sexual mores. Technology affects culture.
ER  -